BILL NUMBER: SB 134	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 2, 2015
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 13, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hertzberg
   (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Alejo)
   (Coauthors: Senators Allen, Jackson, Leno, Pavley, and Wieckowski)

   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Cristina Garcia, Santiago, and
Steinorth)

                        JANUARY 22, 2015

   An act to amend  Section 69741.5 of the Education Code,
and to amend  Section 6032 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to attorneys.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 134, as amended, Hertzberg. State Bar of California: voluntary
fee collection: loan repayment program.
   Existing law, the State Bar Act, provides for the licensure and
regulation of attorneys by the State Bar of California, a public
corporation. Existing law authorizes the State Bar to collect annual
membership dues and voluntary fees, as specified. Existing law
creates the Public Interest Attorney Loan Repayment Program, which is
administered by the Student Aid Commission, to provide loan
repayment assistance for licensed attorneys who practice or agree to
practice in public interest areas of the law in California. 
Existing law limits the warrants that the commission may award for
the assumption of loans pursuant to that program to the number
authorized in the annual Budget Act for the applicable fiscal year.

   This bill would expressly authorize the State Bar to collect
voluntary fees on behalf of, and for the purpose of funding, the
Public Interest Attorney Loan Repayment Program.  The bill
would repeal the limit on the number of warrants the commission may
issue, as described above. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
   
  SECTION 1.    Section 69741.5 of the Education
Code is amended to read:
   69741.5.  Participants in this program are eligible for a maximum
of eleven thousand dollars ($11,000) in loan assistance for four
years, as follows:
   (a) For the first year, two thousand dollars ($2,000) in loan
repayment assistance.
   (b) For the second, third, and fourth years, three thousand
dollars ($3,000) in loan repayment assistance for each year.

   SEC. 2.   SECTION 1.   Section 6032 of
the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:
   6032.  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the State
Bar is expressly authorized to collect, in conjunction with the State
Bar's collection of its annual membership dues, voluntary fees on
behalf of, and for the purpose of funding, the California Supreme
Court Historical Society, which advances the science of jurisprudence
by preserving and disseminating to the general public the history of
the Supreme Court and the judicial branch.
   (b) Notwithstanding any other law, the State Bar is expressly
authorized to collect, in conjunction with the State Bar's collection
of its annual membership dues, voluntary fees on behalf of, and for
the purpose of  funding,   funding, both the
administration and provision of loan assistance for,  the Public
Interest Attorney Loan Repayment Program (Article 12 (commencing
with Section 69740) of Chapter 2 of Part 42 of Division 5 of Title 3
of the Education Code), which provides loan assistance to licensed
attorneys who practice or agree to practice in public interest areas
of the law in this state.